Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Israel's relationship with the Bolsonaro clan is one of a broader relationship built over a quarter of a century through Brazil's military and police.

Israel's influence in Brazil was, quote, built mainly through the armed forces and the police and from there extends to far-right parties and movements, said Bruno Huberman, a professor of international relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo in Brazil.

But perhaps somewhat ironically, the relationship with Israel, quote-unquote, began to change under Lula's first stint as president between 2003 and 11, he says.

As Brazil Why do you have it for six, seven years? Is that seven years? Eight years? Oh, he must have won two times.